Once Upon A Time 4×02 “White Out” Recap

Spoilers Ahead This week’s episode fortified and built strong relationships while once again reminding us how vital it is to fight for the things we want most without ever giving up. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Kristoff had given Anna, Charming’s name as the one person he’s known in the Enchanted Forest and Anna ends up playing a vital role in his life. When Bo Peep (Robin Weigert) comes to collect her debt, Anna inspires Charming to actually fight for what’s rightfully theirs. Not exactly as sweet and friendly as the one in Toy Story is she? However, it’s not until after

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Once Upon A Time 4×01 “A Tale of Two Sisters” Recap

Spoilers Ahead At some point audiences may get tired of hearing things like “Storybrooke has frozen over,” but enormous Disney nerds like us will doubtlessly get chills from excitement every time. With such a strong premiere, the rest of the season will change things like no other. Yes, it’s only been an episode, but with our expectations being exceeded so far, we’re not too sure how much more perfection we can handle as the rest of the season progresses. Arendelle Flashbacks: Before the King and Queen of Arendelle die due to their ship sinking on their voyage to the Enchanted Forest, they

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Once Upon A Time 3×21 “Snow Drifts” and 3×22 “There’s No Place Like Home” Recap

Spoilers Ahead People of all ages, this two-part season finale should serve as an example of how perfection should be brought to life on screen. Continuing from where we left off last week, Rumple enacts Zelena’s curse and sends Killian and Emma back to the Enchanted forest moments before Snow and Charming are about to meet for the first time. They alter the instant Snow is supposed to steal the ring, and in an attempt to make sure the two still fall in love, Killian and Emma visit Rumplestilskin in order to ask for his help. He only agrees to

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Once Upon A Time 3×20 “Kansas” Recap

Spoilers Ahead And here we go again with yet another curse. Yay? Oz Flashbacks: Zelena meets Glinda the good witch who offers her a place in a sisterhood stating that they’ve been waiting for her arrival for a long time. Glinda introduces Zelena to two other witches who are waiting for the fourth one –Zelena– to join. The witch of the North represents wisdom, Glinda from the South represents love, and the one from the East represents courage. Zelena the witch of the West, represents the most ‘elusive power of all’: innocence. “Innocence reclaimed can be just as powerful as

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Once Upon A Time 3×19 “A Curious Thing” Recap

Spoilers Ahead Once Upon A Time has been at its best this season with plot twists. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Charming and Snow are about to announce their pregnancy to the kingdom, but moments before turning into flying monkeys, Aurora and Phillip reveal the witch’s plan to take their baby. Belle runs in to tell everyone that Rumple and Neal have morphed together, and the Charmings later visit him to find out how they could defeat the Wicked Witch. He doesn’t respond to them with useful information until Belle decides to speak with him and he states that the only thing powerful

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Once Upon A Time 3×18 “Bleeding Through” Recap

Spoilers Ahead Flashbacks: Young Cora (Rose McGowan) is working as a barmaid when she’s proposed to by Prince Jonathan who’s actually a gardener. And after he promises to return for her in two weeks, he reveals his true identity and refuses to help support the child. Broken and alone she then meets Snow’s father, Prince Leopold who offers her a hand in marriage, but when Princess Eva finds out that she’s with a child, she tells Leopold which evidently angers him and he chooses to go back on his word. Thus, when Cora finally gives birth, she realizes that she

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Once Upon A Time 3×17 “The Jolly Roger” Recap

Spoilers Ahead There’s nothing quite as enjoyable as our favorite charismatic swashbuckler and darling little mermaid teaming up to find lost love, even if things weren’t as they seem, the chemistry between Colin O’Donoghue and JoAnna Garcia-Swisher was outstanding. An episode gorgeously framed around the idea of love grounding the heart at home, they both authenticated the notion that it’s physically, spiritually, and emotionally impossible to be happy when separated from those they care most for. It also makes it harder for people to be the best versions of themselves. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Mr. Smee and the rest of the

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Once Upon A Time 3×16 “It’s Not Easy Being Green” Recap

Spoilers Ahead Count on Once Upon A Time to not only give us a beautiful emotionally driven episode but take us back to the Wild West with a good old duel to determine who should’ve been chosen to be Rumplestilskin’s most beloved trainee. Flashbacks: A childless family on their way to The Emerald City find abandoned, infant Zelena and decides to keep her. At that moment she’d already been displaying magical abilities, and while the husband was hesitant to keep her, the wife insists she needs their help. It is later when she dies, and Zelena isn’t able to control

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×13 “And They Lived …” Recap

Spoilers Ahead … Happily Ever After. If a series finale doesn’t end as beautifully as this one then it completely ruins the entire show. A special acknowledgment to writers and executive producers, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis along with Jane Espenson, and Zack Estrin, for doing their characters and story justice with such an outstanding finale. The episode opens up with Jafar and Amara completing the task to reverse the laws of magic – making someone fall in love, changing the past, and bringing someone back from the dead. He compels Anastasia to believe she’s in love with him and poor

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Once Upon A Time 3×15 “Quiet Minds” Recap

Spoilers Ahead If there’s one thing Once Upon A Time writers are able to do masterfully is provide viewers with a beautiful sense of closure as a beloved character’s life comes to end. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: When Neal and Belle meet Lumiere (Henry Lubatti ) he points them in the direction of a key that leads to the Dark One’s vault. As it turns out, he’s working with the Wicked Witch, and during a battle with the witch, Rumple chooses his son over the dagger. Even though Lumiere was working for the Wicked Witch, he then chooses to help Belle

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×12 “To Catch A Thief” Recap

Spoilers Ahead In flashbacks, we learned that while his heart was still under Cora’s command Will was told to haunt and kill Alice, but she instead offers to steal his heart back thus freeing him from Cora’s control. Will then helps her find proof of Wonderland to show her father, and the two share drinks while talking about their plans and past. Jafar tells Will that he’d change the laws of magic and bring Anastasia back from the dead if they let him win and releases him in order for him to tell Cyrus and Alice. Because the staff is

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Once Upon A Time 3×14 “The Tower” Recap

Spoilers Ahead The episode opens up in the most beautifully enchanting way as Charming dreams of teaching Emma how to dance for her first ball. While dancing, the two shared a conversation both undoubtedly always wanted, and though it was Charming’s dream, as an audience we know it’s something Emma would’ve perpetually treasured as well. Their gorgeous scene is cut short when Emma’s taken by the wardrobe once again, thus illuminating the fact that Charming’s afraid of not being a good enough father. That little moment where Emma called Charming daddy while being pulled away broke hearts everywhere, as this

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×11 “Heart of the Matter” Recap

Spoilers Ahead This week’s episode of Once Upon A Time in Wonderland took an unexpected turn no one expected or wanted. If you’re still recovering from the tearjerker ending, then you’re not alone. In flashbacks we learned that the throne didn’t exactly suit Ana as she imagined, and the moment she was about to run from it all to reunite with Will, Cora being a few steps ahead of her had already told Will she wasn’t coming and forced him to essentially give up his heart. If she had business cards they’d probably read “Cora Mills: Destroying Relationships 1 Heart

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Once Upon A Time 3×13 “Witch Hunt” Recap

Spoilers Ahead The best part of this week’s episode was the marvelous interactions and how quickly every revelation occurred – things are about to escalate and brilliantly. Not sure how anyone else feels, but we’re pretty fond of this whole Oz arc so far. When was the last time a witch actually flew on a broomstick? It’s always incredible to have classics being brought back into our television screens. Back in the enchanted forest, a flying monkey, perhaps Walsh pre-Emma, tries to attack Regina but Roland happens to be standing in his direction, and without a single thought, Regina sweeps

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×10 “Dirty Little Secrets” Recap

Spoilers Ahead All this week’s episode did is leave me waiting for next week’s visit to Storybrooke and Barbara Hershey’s guest appearance. Personal wishes aside, let’s talk about this week’s heartbreakingly revealing episode. Cyrus’ mother, later revealed as Amara was badly burned and on her death bed until her boys, Cyrus primarily decided to go against let’s call her the Ring girl number two’s (if you’re curious, I may or may not have screamed at the sight of it) word. After they stole the water and revived their mother she came after them and cursed them to be genies their

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Once Upon A Time 3×12 “New York City Serenade” Recap

Spoilers Ahead If there’s one episode that’s been worth the awfully long three-month hiatus, New York City Serenade is definitely it. When we parted ways with our most favorite characters, everyone but Emma and Henry were sent back to the Enchanted Forest, and it was up to Captain Hook to jog Emma’s memories one year later. There were quite a few noteworthy, tear-jerker scenes in this episode that certainly set up the rest of the season gloriously. For starters, even though it was temporary, it was incredibly refreshing to see Emma Swan live a normal life where she got to

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×09 “Nothing to Fear” Recap

Spoilers Ahead When we left our favorites in Wonderland, Will’s selfless decision to wish for Alice’s happiness turned him into the new genie and forced Cyrus and Alice to work closely with the Red Queen to find him before Jafar does. “Happily ever after can’t just be for us, it has to be for everyone, for all of wonderland.” As for the episode’s and show’s entire theme, this particular quote was said remarkably by our beloved Alice and as far as plot twists and character development goes, this may have been the best episode yet.

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Once Upon A Time 3×11 “Going Home” Recap

Spoilers Ahead Once Upon A Time has rightfully set the bar insanely high for any fairytale adaptations. Surely we aren’t the only ones this mid-season finale caused copious amounts of pain too. Additionally, there were far too many exceptional scenes in this episode to pick favorites and leave things out, that being said, this is long, and a bit different from our usual recaps considering the fact that there was more than one flashback.

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OUAT in Wonderland 1×08 “Home” Recap

Spoilers ahead: Flashbacks: This week’s flashbacks gave viewers a further glimpse into Cyrus and Alice’s relationship in the past. As they were stargazing and being adorable, Cyrus reveals that he wasn’t always a genie thus, justifying the notion that it’s something anyone can become. When they’re attacked by three men and Alice injures herself while fighting, Cyrus takes her to the rabbit’s house where his wife tries to revive her. The rabbit tells Cyrus he needs to let Alice go, and he visits the caterpillar to ask for his assistance in his disappearance. Cyrus later reveals an invisible house to

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Once Upon A Time 3×10 “The New Neverland” Recap

Spoilers Ahead Once upon a time being told that there’d be a new Neverland would sound magically beautiful to everyone, but now it’s frightening and unwanted. Flashback: This week’s flashback takes place moments after Regina threatens the Charmings on their wedding day. During their honeymoon, Snow convinces Charming to search for Medusa in order to cut off her head, and use it to turn Regina into stone. Their plan backfires because Charming looks Medusa in the eyes, and becomes a statue himself until a message from Regina influences Snow’s new plan where she shows Medusa her own reflection, and frees

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